Series Spotlight: New York State and Regional Studies
Take a closer look at the books the press publishes on New York State and the greater region.
Series Spotlight: TV and Pop Culture
Celebrating over twenty-five years of groundbreaking scholarship, our Television and Pop Culture series offers a wide variety of volumes about American television and popular culture, including updated classics like the widely course-adopted Watching TV. Topics examine individual shows, specific genres, creators and producers, and the history and evolution of the medium. Since its founding, the series has expanded to include more aspects of American popular culture and mass entertainment such as vaudeville, comics, movies, and radio broadcasting. From the Acquisitions Editor, Heather Stauffer As the television medium has transformed in the era of streaming and internet platforms, so too has…
Staff picks for summer
Beyond the work we publish, the staff at Syracuse University Press is always reading. Here are a sampling of the titles staff are reading this summer. The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World by Lincoln Paine Showing my true history nerd colors this summer: I’m reading Lincoln Paine’s The Sea and Civilization, a global history of ships and seafaring. There’s nothing like looking back across thousands of years of human innovation, migration, and violence to put the present in context. Next up: Christopher Beckwith’s The Scythian Empire, from Princeton University Press’s inimitable ancient history list. When I…
SU Press editors participating in CNY Humanities Corridor’s “Getting Your Book Published: A Roundtable”
Syracuse University Press will be participating in the CNY Humanities Corridor’s “Getting Your Book Published: A Roundtable,” from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Friday, February 7.
Syracuse University Press News and Reviews
Recent coverage and events Electric Lit publishes an illustrated interview with author Ibtisam Azem about The Book of Disapperance. Teach Me How to Whisper named 2024’s Book of the Year by Lyric Poetry & Poetics. Dennis Connor interviewed on WSYR’s Tell Me Something Good about The Gilded Age on Syracuse’s James Street. The History of the mansions on James Street is explored in a Syracuse.com piece on Dennis Connors and his book, The Gilded Age on Syracuse’s James Street. The Chicago Tribune interviews Walter Podrazik and Harry Castleman about their process and updating Watching TV to the new edition. The…
Tall tales of the Erie Canal
The Erie Canal developed its own unique folklore and tall tales, often shared by the canallers who worked the waterways and the people who lived alongside them.
The 1977 Buffalo Blizzard and ‘Declaring Disaster’
January 28, 1977, began as just another Friday morning for people across western New York.
The Erie Canal in literature and theater
In Low Bridge! Folklore and the Erie Canal, author Lionel D. Wyld recounts some of the early 20th Century literature and performance that sprung from the canal and canaller culture.
UP Week 2024: A History of Stepping Up for Books
Behind every great fortune there is a crime, and behind every noble proclamation there is politics. Granted, as aphorisms go, mine may not sing quite like Balzac’s. But as we celebrate University Press Week and raise up those books that some would ban or burn, let’s remember this: Proclamations don’t just happen. They must be worked at to matter. Take the urtext of University Press Week, the proclamation signed on June 14, 1978 by then-President Jimmy Carter recognizing “American University Press Day.” Funny thing was, Carter signed the proclamation three days after the designated day of June 11 had passed….
UPWeek: Team UP and translation in an Omani cafe
November 10-14 marks University Press Week, when presses come together to celebrate scholarship, collaboration, and sharing academic works across the world. To celebrate this year’s theme of TeamUP, translator of Arabic fiction Zia Ahmed wrote this guest post on his collaboration with writer, Hamoud Saud, on their upcoming book.